Friday, 30 Nov 2007 will remain as a memorable day for me for multiple reasons.

I completed 1 year in the present organization. Last year 01 Dec when I joined, “Employee learning day” was being celebrated through quiz and other activities involving employees. This year alongwith the quiz, there was a competition on creative writing. The underlying theme was to bring out the imaginative person within. There were two topics to choose from, a funny/ silly incident in life OR the Cinderella story told by the ugly sisters.

I had too many funny/ silly incidents in life and it was grossly difficult for me to choose from and confine my narration within the predetermined meager 250-word limit. So, I decided to tell the Cinderella story, in contemporary context.

It went like this-

We are two sisters with normal feminine look with hair without peroxide bleach. We lived with our stepsister called Cinderella. Because of space problem, we had to ask her to sleep in the kitchen near the microwave. She was fond of piercing and tattoos and her looks- critics would say as “mirror cracking material”.  In her pastime our mom solved sodoku.

Vicky, son of the local MLA, who was a millionaire, once threw a dance party. He was a handsome hunk and we were all excited to meet him. Cinderella opted out, in spite of several persuasions from us.

We rocked the first night along, dancing. There was a charming girl in miniskirt, no one could recognize, but Vicky noticed her and immediately got smitten. Next night, he noticed her glass stilettos. He then quickly browsed google in his blackberry and found one such shoe was sold recently on e-bay. The girl left before he could catch her.

Next morning, Vicky announced that he would marry the girl who would produce the e-bay email confirmation for the stilettos. Same day, we found e-bay in our PC’s browsing history. On insistence, we learnt that Cinderella won a prize for a sodoku competition and she was entitled for a Chauffeur driven limo for a night plus a lifetime free credit card! Cinderella ordered exotic designer outfits online and booked the car for the weeknight.

Later we found that the sodoku was solved by our mom !

I won the first prize of 3000k.

I don’t mind quitting my regular job if spending 10 minutes time & 250 words gets me rewarded with that kind of money. I would then spend as much hours & words I can :)

Yesterday I also received the engine no & chasis no of the new car I booked one month back. Now I know there’s a car manufactured for me, yeah!